I wanted to load Red Hat 5.2 on a TEC register recently. It is a very small unit that can't hold a CD-ROM and you can't even get at the IDE cable to plug one in unless you dismantle most of the machine. It comes with a builtin ethernet card so I was going to install from a NFS server that had the CD-ROM mounted. The builtin ethernet card is a RealTek RTL8139 which I had verified was supported in the Linux 2.0.x kernels. When I picked an NFS install and was given a list of ethernet cards to choose from, there was no entry for the RealTek. In the end I had to pull the whole machine apart and find a spare CD-ROM I could attach to it to load Red Hat 5.2. I don't relish doing this with all the TEC's I will be loading so I hope in the next Red Hat release you will support this RealTek card at boot time. Thanks and keep up the great job!
With the chipset you stated, you should have chosen the NE2000-PCI choice under the install network menu. That should ave worked for your card.